Foreword

This is the fifth Book and Paper Group Annual, a
non-juried anthology of papers pertaining to the conservation and
preservation of works of art on paper, books, and library and
archival materials. The Annual has become a valuable
reference and resource tool for members of the Book and Paper Group
as well as for an increasingly wider audience. Its success rests
solely with those who have willingly contributed information for
publication and those who have served as editors and compilers. The
Annual is one method by which the Book and Paper Group
serves its membership. It provides a forum for the exchange of
information and ideas.

I would like to extend my thanks to all those who have made
contributions to Volume 5; the authors, the past and present Board
Members of the Book and Paper Group, the former Editors of The
Book and Paper Group Annual, and Holly Maxson. I would
especially like to thank Robert Espinosa, who was instrumental in
arranging for the printing of this volume.

Finally, I would like to encourage authors to submit relevant
articles to future editions of the Annual so that it
continues to promote our professional interests and goals.**

Elizabeth Kaiser Schulte
November 1986

*Authors are responsible for the content and
accuracy of their submissions and publication in the Annual does not
constitute endorsement by the Book and Paper Group or by the
American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works.

**Authors of papers whose scope is of general
interest to the conservation community are encouraged to submit
their articles to the Journal of the American Institute for
Conservation. Authors of articles already published in the
BPG Annual which have been well received and have
stimulated further discussion should also consider submitting them
to the Journal.

To the Gentlemen Tanners in this and every other town in the
Province.

I have observed that the public have been earnstly and repeatedly
importuned to save rags, in order to promote the paper manufactory
now carried on in this province. But I don't remember of seeing
anything of this nature published by way of address to the tanners,
who are able to contribute no inconsiderable part towards carrying
on this essential branch of business: for it is well known that
paper without sizing is but rags still; and it would be needless to
inform you that this size is made of calves pates; and it is not
without regret I inform you, that it is the general complaint of
those gentlemen who carry on that branch of business, of the
negligence of the tanners, in not saving the pates, as usual; for
which reason, they have been greatly obstructed and hindered in
their business. And now, Gentlemen, I entreat you in behalf of the
public, to see that the pates are properly limed and dryed, and
disposed of (when applied for) for the purpose abovementioned; and
in so doing you will not only merit the esteem of every well-wisher
to the cause of the country: but it is to be hoped, you will shortly
feel the salutary effects which must necessarily arise from a plenty
of paper, without any export of money.

N.B. The market-men are much addicted to leaving the skin of the
calf on the head, because it looks something nicer, and will fetch
perhaps the value of one shilling old tenor more; by which means
there is perhaps four times that sum sunk in the community:
Therefore it is presumed that no friend to the cause will buy a
calve's head with the skin on; and if any should be offered to sale,
it is desired that it might not only be refused but the reason
assigned: And if the seller has the good of the community at heart,
he will not only refrain from it himself, but will advise others to
desist likewise.